TABLE OF CONTENTS-PART FOUR. PAGE. Judges of the Territorial Courts of the Northwest Territory (1787-1802)..... 661 Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio (1802-1851)..... Judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio Under the Constitution of 1851. AN EXECUTIVE TRIBUTE TO THE JUDICIARY OF OHIO. W HILE engaged in a search through the legislative journals of Ohio for data for the Ohio Hundred Year Book (1901) of which this publication is a continuation, the following expressive paragraph was found in the annual address of Governor Joseph Vance to the General Assembly of Ohio, December 13, 1836: "I have again and again, whilst on business in the eastern cities, heard our judiciary spoken of in terms that made me proud that I was a citizen of Ohio. 'No collusion or fraud, sir,' says an eminent merchant of one of our eastern cities, 'can stand before your judiciary.' This is the character, gentlemen, that causes capital to seek employment here; this is the character that gives security to our rights, and value to our property; and to these combined causes, are to be attributed a large portion of that flowing prosperity that is felt throughout every portion of our commonwealth." Ohio was but a trifle over 33 years old as a state when a pioneer governor spoke to a pioneer general assembly in these glowing terms of a pioneer judiciary; in the years since 1836 Ohio has continued to owe to the Judiciary of the state the security and character which attracted attention in the early years of statehood. There are many jewels hidden in those old legislative journals; this is but one of them. E. HOWARD GILKEY, Law Librarian. THE ORGANIZATION. HE Supreme Court of the State of Ohio as at present constituted consists of six judges who are elected for six years, the term of one judge expiring each year. This court is divided into two divisions of three judges each, the first division consisting of the Chief Justice and the third and fifth judge in the order of the expiration of their terms, and the second division consists of the remaining three. When the judges comprising either division divide as to the decision in a cause before it, the cause shall be reserved for decision by the full court; and when different causes involving the same question are before the respective divisions at the same time, such causes shall also be reserved for decision by the full court. If the whole court be divided evenly as to the decision in any cause, the judgment of the lower court shall be entered as affirmed, and such decision shall be held to be the law as to all such questions in other causes until overruled by a majority of all the judges. And when the members of the court, in any matter of original jurisdiction, divide evenly on any question or questions therein, the determination of the members with whom the chief justice votes shall be held to be the judgment of the court. LOCATION. The Court Rooms, Consultation Rooms and Judges' Offices occupy the entire second floor of the Judiciary Building of the State Capitol. The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio. WEEKLY COURT CALENDAR. For the mutual convenience of the court and of parties in suit before it, the following rule in practice is observed: Mondays Reserved for consultation. Tuesdays-Reserved for decisions of the Court.. Thursdays Reserved for hearing motions. Fridays-Reserved for the hearing of oral arguments. Saturdays-Reserved for consultation. |